Newhouse Statement on Speaker Pelosi’s Reversal on State of the Union Invitation

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Representative Dan Newhouse (R-WA) released the following statement after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced her refusal to pass a resolution to allow President Trump to give the State of the Union address in the House chamber:

"After inviting President Trump to give the State of the Union address, Speaker Nancy Pelosi backtracked and now refuses to authorize the State of the Union address in the House chamber," said Rep. Newhouse. "Speaker Pelosi's reversal is an unprecedented attempt to impede the President of the United States from performing his constitutional duty laid out in Article II to ‘give the Congress information of the State of the Union.' House Democrats began their majority this year by obstructing the President and refusing to negotiate with him or Republicans on funding border security and reopening the federal government, and this move continues their obstruction. The House of Representatives should override Speaker Pelosi's obstruction and vote to allow the President's State of the Union to go on as planned."